Simpering Airhead Mermaid Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Katherine Goldstein discuss failed voice lessons, resigning yourself to chicken nuggets, dude time, what to do about sexist cartoons, how to cope with friends with bad parenting technique, plus recommendations and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 15th, the |
| 0:15.7 | Simpering Airhead Mermaid Edition. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate and the father of |
| 0:20.3 | Eliza, age 7, and Leo, who is three and three quarters. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate and the father of Eliza, age seven, |
| 0:21.5 | and Leo, who is three and three quarters. I'm Rebecca Lavoie. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New |
| 0:26.5 | Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry who is 16, Teddy who is 15, and I have a beautiful stepdaughter, |
| 0:31.7 | Lily, who is 17. I'm Catherine Goldstein in for Carvel Wallace, and I'm the mom to Asher, who is two and a half. |
| 0:39.8 | Today on our show, we have a question about what to do when you hate your friend's kids, |
| 0:45.1 | and another about what to do when you hate your kids' favorite TV shows. |
| 0:48.5 | Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails, we'll have recommendations, |
| 0:52.1 | and on Slate Plus, you'll get to hear Rebecca |
| 0:54.4 | dish on her evolving relationship with her son's girlfriend's family. If you want to hear that |
| 0:59.1 | segment and many more, slate.com slash mom and dad plus first though triumphs and fails. Catherine, |
| 1:06.0 | welcome to the show. How has your week been? Has it been a week of triumph for a week of failure? |
| 1:10.2 | Well, so today I have a |
| 1:11.6 | fail, which I am going to describe as a slow unfolding fail over many months or perhaps |
| 1:18.5 | even a year, given the fact that my son has only two and a half, I think is pretty an |
| 1:22.5 | impressively long stint of fail. Okay. So my son can be a picky eater. And I know this is like par for the |
| 1:34.4 | course. Toddlers are picky. They have opinions about everything. I know it's not the big of deal. |
| 1:39.4 | Basically where I see the fail is, is that he has convinced me and my husband to make him separate food for |
| 1:49.0 | dinner every night just so we don't have to listen to him wine about not wanting to eat the things |
| 1:54.5 | that we're eating. And the reason I know that this is a true fail is because he goes to daycare where they give him |
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